Safety hair-pin.



A. FREDERIKSEN.

SAFETY HAIR PIN. A APPLIOATION FILED JAN.14. 1910 994,917, Patented June13, 1911.

UNIT

SAFETY HAIR-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1911.

Application filed January 14, 1910. Seria1 No. 538,063.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON FREDERIKSEN, a citizen of Denmark, andresiding at Brandesall 1, Copenhagen, Denmark, have in vented new anduseful Improvements in Safety Hair-Pins, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in safety or self retaining hairpins and may be embodied in a one piece form of pin.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a safety orself retaining hair pin shaped so that when it is inserted in the hairit will embrace a portion thereof in such a manner as to prevent self oraccidental displacement from the coilfure, and

' which will, when grasped for removal, permit of the pin being readilywithdrawn from the coiifure without entangling or pulling the hair.

The invention will be more fully described in connection with theaccompanying drawings and will be more particularly pointed out andascertained in and by the appended claim.

In the drawing :Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a safety or selfretaining hair pin showing one embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 is anedge viewthereof.

Like characters of reference designate similar parts throughout thediflerent fig ures of the drawing.

As shown in the accompanying drawing, the hair pin according to oneembodiment of my invention, comprises a loop 0 provided with extensionsor branch members a and b. The loop 0 is preferably not a completecircle and the material is bent at d so that the loop 0 is in the formof an oblong eye. Preferably the branch members a, b, are disposed inparallel relation with each other and the bend at d forms engaging meansor portions preventing the pin from becoming accidentally withdrawn fromthe hair embraced thereby. As will be seen from the drawing the branchmembers a and 6 extending from the loop 0 are spaced apart from eachother throughout their length and the bent portions 03 are also spacedapart from each other so as to leave a free space throughout the lengthof the pin for facilitating the insertion and withdrawal thereof fromthe coiffure.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be noted that the base of the loopedport-ions are also bent at d to occupy a plane laterally of the plane ofthe loop. It will thus be seen that the bent portions (Z are in theplane of the loop and the bent portions d are laterally disposed withrespect to the plane of the loop thereby providing a two part bentportion at the base of the loop. The function of the double bends is tocause the bent portion in one plane to supplement the action of andcooperate with the bent portion of the other plane to prevent accidentalwithdrawal of the pin from the coiifure. It will also be noted thatthere are no sharp angles and that injury to the hair resulting fromcrinkling of the branch portions, as in prior hair pins, is entirelyavoided.

By reason of the double bent portions 03 and d the branch members a andb not only occupy planes laterally disposed with respect to the plane ofthe loop or eye 0 but said branches (4 and Z) are laterally disposedwith respect to each other.

I claim.-

A self retaining hair pin comprising a loop having its base portionsbent inwardly toward each other and in the plane of the loop, one ofsaid base portions being also bent laterally to one side of the plane ofthe loop and the other base portion being also bent laterally of theplane of the loop to the opposite side thereof, and branch membersextending downwardly from said oppositely bent base portions, saidbranch members and bends being maintained throughout their extent out ofcontact with each other.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANTON FREDERIKSEN.

Witnesses HANS PEDERSEN, CARL Knoorr.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

